Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-values-4] The rest of the JS math functions (#4688)

> <dbaron> Oriol was pointing out that cbrt(-8) is -2 whereas pow(-8, 1/3) is NaN
> <dbaron> And, particularly, fractions 1/N where N is odd are not representable exactly unless N is 1 or -1.

How was this not convincing enough to also add `cbrt()` or, alternatively, `inv()` for 1/*x* to get `pow(-8, inv(3)) = -2`? 

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